Knowledge Quote by Bertold Brecht

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .”

— Ted Dekker

“Familiarity obscures surprises”

— Israel O. Olaniran

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity.…

— Henry Petroski

“that made the unfamiliar familiar.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The most alarming moments of anatomy are not the bizarre, the unknown. They are the familiar.”

— Christine Montross